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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bitter Grounds, and Other People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman from the bar say happened to a young man in New Orleans?
(a) He was drugged with zombie powder and craved it until he became little more than a zombie himself.
(b) He fell in love with a voodoo priestess who cursed him and now uses him as a slave.
(c) He woke up one day to find that his identity had been stolen.
(d) He got involved with bad men and was killed and tuned into a zombie.

2. What does June say before October's story begins?
(a) She thinks October should wait until last to tell his story.
(b) She doesn't like horror stories.
(c) She sometimes feels as if they are being watched.
(d) She would like to be in the chair next month.

3. Why are the first two ghost stories unsatisfying?
(a) They do not involve any of the people at the club.
(b) They are urban legends and do not make a lot of sense.
(c) They are not actually about ghosts.
(d) They are told badly.

4. In 'Other People' what is the worst form of torture that the demon inflicts on the man?
(a) It makes him relive everything bad that he has ever done.
(b) It pulls his fingernails out.
(c) It puts him in an iron maiden.
(d) It forces him to watch the deaths of all the people he has ever loved.

5. Whom does the detective suspect of committing the murder, and why?
(a) Vernet.
(b) Vernet and his friend the 'Limping Doctor.'
(c) Inspector Lestrade.
(d) Prince Albert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the other three men at the club on the night they tell each other ghost stories?

2. What does the narrator do the next day?

3. Why does Runt think he will be ok when he runs away from home?

4. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?

5. Why does the narrator not understand the jokes the other boys tell?

(see the answer key)

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